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  1. Re:Great idea on MySpace Sued by Families of Online Predator Victims · · Score: 1

    Good question.

    Close, there was a recent lawsuit filed against parents for parental negligence as their child died of issues related to childhood obesity which is more reasonable, in my mind, than suing McDonald's (just as your thought is more reasonable than suing MySpace).

  2. 1. Dilatants on 5 Strangest Materials · · Score: 2, Interesting

    fluids that get more solid when stressed. The classic example is a mixture of cornflour and water - it's runny until you hit it when it becomes solid.

    I remember playing with this mixture in grade school and since then I have always wondered why materials like this could not be used to make protective/bullet proof armor. Could someone explain this to me?

  3. Thank you Captain Obvious on What's Spreading "the AJAX Wildfire"? · · Score: 1

    I'm not an Ajax fan...err, "boi," but I really can't stand obnoxious assclowns.

    1. "...essentially eliminates" is what was said. He even went on to say, "A button click just sends the data that's pertinent..." Which is quite ironic as this statement also serves to point out the idiocy of mentioning broadband vs dial-up in your response. As if unessential data in a request/response is actually better for dial-up.

    2. The proliferation of Ajax is absolutely new. Just as the proliferation of the Internet itself was new in the 90's after Al Gore invented it.

    Now please don't respond with an explanation of how Ajax is not a technology in and of itself and that it's really a combination of blah blah blah.

    And it's XMLHttpRequest smartypants....Javascript is case sensitive.

  4. Re:Shill! on Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you stop with the ad hominem and address the point of what he is saying about nuclear power?

  5. Re:More recommended reading on A Stark Warning On Climate Change · · Score: 1

    Nice ad hominem attack. Attack the author not the substance of the article. How pathetic and typical of you alarmists. Rather than posting links of other articles, why don't you try to address a specific point to the above article?

    Just a friendly suggestion.

  6. Re:Anyone notice somthing on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 1

    Just how is Slashdot saying it's fake? Trying to suppress slashdot are you? One ironic comment after another from you.

  7. Re:Right on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No, because they have so much to gain by receiving money to study the "problem." Which is the very reason they're producing alarmists commercials concerning global warming.

    Oh wait...what's that link in your sig? What pathetic irony.

  8. Re:omg on Global Warming Dissenters Suppressed? · · Score: 0, Troll

    nazi in disguise as a neo-con

    Please provide an example...how about Paul Wolfowitz, heh?

  9. Re:The truth about "poverty" in the US. on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 1

    I knew you couldn't refrain. The question doesn't require complex thought or nuance Einstein. You can either show yourself as delusional and blinded by your hatred for Bush and say that poverty is getting worse. Or you can recognize reality. Good luck with that.

  10. Re:Wrong Direction? on Microsoft Releases Atlas · · Score: 1

    Try actually reading about it before you spout some lame comment:

    From http://atlas.asp.net/Default.aspx?tabid=47

    However, "Atlas" isn't just for ASP.NET. You can take advantage of the rich client framework to easily build client-centric Web applications that integrate with any backend data provider.

  11. Re:The truth about "poverty" in the US. on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 1

    Do you believe the poverty problem in the US is getting better or worse? Please refrain from a shortsighted answer that shows your hatred for Bush.

  12. Re:Maybe it's just me... on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 1

    That's the ticket...have the government do the job of parents. Sure, the real problem in the US is lack of food stamps and student breakfast/lunch programs. After all, socialism has worked so well in the past...

  13. Re:The truth about "poverty" in the US. on Democrats May Promise Broadband for All · · Score: 1

    Why don't you address the point genius instead of simply attacking the source?

  14. Re:Its both! on Modern Humans, Neanderthals Shared Earth for 1,000 Years · · Score: 1

    And God didn't give freewill to humans and everything that happens on earth is his choosing.

    I love it when secularists like yourselves show their inner hate toward those of faith.

    "Yep...people of faith are morons and I hate them. That's being an open minded liberal."

  15. Well, no actually... on USA to Pass Science Crown to China · · Score: 1

    It's China's movement toward free market economies that has spurned it's economic growth...not government control.

  16. Oh, give me a break on ESRB Revokes San Andreas Rating · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    so you just comment out the call to activate it

    ...and then include the cheat to re-activate it.

  17. Re:And let me guess...... on Microsoft to Release AJAX Framework · · Score: 1

    "... almost as good as a standard."

    LOL, are you serious? MS should follow your "almost as good as a standard?" They invented the damn object and now you're telling them how they should use it...brilliant.

    Of course, their .NET tool developers would do well to use syntax for object creation that worked with multiple browsers...but I'm sure it's going to be easy enough to include our own object detection script to replace whatever reference variable they have in the case of non-IE browsers.

  18. XMLHttpRequest is not "standard" on Microsoft to Release AJAX Framework · · Score: 2, Informative

    And your knowledge is pretty far off-base.

    Do you realize the XMLHttpRequest Object (the core javascript object in which AJAX would not exist without) is not a W3C standard? It was first implemented in IE5 as an ActiveX Object (new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")) and latered implemented by Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, etc.

    Of course, you won't find anyone giving MS credit for innovation here, but you'll get modded 5 if you're the first to mentions "standards!"

  19. Re:Sympathy for the Japanese on Censored Nagasaki Bomb Story Found · · Score: 1

    Unless we see people as individually responsible for their actions, there will always be racism, nationalism, and other hate-sims.

    Nationalism != hate-sim.

    You're contadicting yourself. You call out nationalism as a "hate-sim" and speak of individual responsibility, yet you cannot recognize that it is the actions of individual malevolent leaders that have used nationalism as a tool to evil ends. Can you not see that nationalism has also been a great aid in rallying nations to fight said tyrants?

    I love it when socialists hide themselves in the "multiculturalists" label.

  20. $8? on Review: Jade Empire · · Score: 2, Insightful

    $8 for a movie? That's cheap!

  21. human right? on Microsoft Abandons Gay Rights Bill · · Score: 1

    What about the human right to employ whom I please?

  22. And for dessert.... on Carrots May Cure Cancer · · Score: 1


    Kick back and enjoy a nice Havana cigar

  23. Re:Good job, Timothy on Speakeasy Embraces Firefox · · Score: 1

    LOL, the Speakeasy link itself in the last sentence is a referral link. Speakeasy offers a free month of service for every person you sign up through their referral links.

  24. Re: Your bullshit on NYT on EA Games · · Score: 1

    We can also compare it to EA Games' marketing budget, estimated at >$100M in the last quarter. Cut your marketing budget by 30%, and you can hire enough programmers for them to have normal lives and increase production.

    Ignorance at it's best. You have no understanding of business. The same crap is spewed about pharmaceutical companies all the time.

    Money spent on marketing drives revenue. Marketing is not a cost, it's an investment. Sure, there are marketing campaigns that fail ( bring in less revenue than the campaign cost itself ) but by and large a companies marketing budget is less than the revenue it creates for the company.

  25. Developers are customers too... on Microsoft Says Firefox Not a Threat to IE · · Score: 4, Interesting
    "I don't believe it is a true statement that IE doesn't have the features that our customers want,..."

    As a web developer there are plenty of features I would like to see along the lines of CSS/XHTML/ECMAScript standards compliance. I would say that my payment of sweat and tears with workarounds to these problems more than qualifies me as a customer.